The ability for community hospitals to fully optimize supply-chain costs remains crucial to providing the highest-quality care possible and staying financially independent in today’s rapidly changing and unpredictable healthcare environment.

To best illustrate this point, the COVID-19 pandemic signaled a wake-up call for those managing hospital supply-chain systems. The outbreak quickly exposed vulnerabilities in the supply chain that threatened the safety of healthcare workers and patients and, in many cases, led to soaring costs for PPE, ventilators and other critical medical supplies.

Read the full article in Healthier Nebraska magazine, Winter 2020 issue.